Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Music
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
